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Video

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated “Odyssey”

xAI’s Grok released the first seven minutes of an AI-generated adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, calling it “Episode 1 of our Odyssey series”. It was made with Grok Imagine, xAI’s video generation tool, together with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. Elon Musk had announced in July that Grok would make a full-length film. TechCrunch’s reviewer found some shots could pass for real footage, but said the dialogue is stilted and the storytelling lacks momentum.

  • AI video
  • video generation
  • Grok Imagine
  • Grok

Source: TechCrunch

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Voice and music

Block’s voice model Dessa laughs, pauses and sounds eerily human

Block, the company led by Jack Dorsey, unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that can listen and talk at the same time. It generates speech with expressions such as laughs, pauses and cries, and holds conversations without a separate large language model. Block says Dessa can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max or better. It is not publicly available yet; Block has asked safety researchers to test it, especially for cases where a voice agent could deceive people.

  • AI voice
  • voice model
  • Dessa
  • Block

Source: TechCrunch

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Free tool

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, now works directly inside Gemini chats

Gemini Notebook, the new name for NotebookLM, is now available as a Connected App in the Gemini app. Without leaving a chat, users can create, edit or delete notebooks in natural language, add or remove sources, list notebooks and get answers based on their content. It is available to personal Google accounts and Workspace users, is on by default outside the European Economic Area and can be turned off under Settings > Connected Apps.

  • NotebookLM
  • Gemini Notebook
  • Gemini

Source: Google Workspace Updates

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AI agents

Claude now works in the background: Anthropic launches the Claude Duet assistant app

Anthropic launched Claude Duet, a new assistant app for professionals and small businesses. Built on Claude Opus 5.5, Duet prepares daily briefings and dashboards, suggests actions based on the user’s data and runs tasks in the background on its own virtual machine, coming back when it needs approval. Sensitive steps such as payments require the user’s approval, and Duet will not trade securities or move money between accounts. It is available on iOS, Android and Claude.ai as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, via a waitlist.

  • Claude
  • Claude Duet
  • Anthropic
  • AI assistant

Source: TechCrunch

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Companies

ChatGPT at work: Uber gives all 30,000 employees access to ChatGPT Work

Uber expanded its partnership with OpenAI, giving its roughly 30,000 employees worldwide access to ChatGPT Work, the enterprise AI agent OpenAI introduced in July. Uber had piloted the tool earlier in the year with about 1,000 employees, around 80% of whom were non-engineers from departments such as finance, operations and product. Pilot users analysed operations data, localised training materials for other languages and built personalised dashboards. Uber did not disclose the cost.

  • ChatGPT
  • ChatGPT Work
  • AI agent
  • OpenAI

Source: TechCrunch

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Images

Canva opens Craft, its first in-house AI image model, to all users

Canva unveiled Canva Craft, the first AI image generation model built by its own research team. The model first reads the prompt and plans the layout, element scale and text, then generates the image at up to 2K resolution in up to 30 aspect ratios. It was trained on Canva’s human-designed templates such as posters, presentations and menus rather than photographs, and promises legible text and precise edits that leave the rest of the image untouched. Craft is available to all Canva users through the Dream Lab tab and via the Canva API, with two cheaper, faster variants on the way.

  • AI image
  • image generation
  • Canva
  • Craft

Source: TechCrunch

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Free tool

Gemini for small businesses: brand, marketing and finance tools coming to all users

Google added new tools for small business owners to the Gemini app: a business page for managing brand, finances and customer insights in one place, and connected apps including Google Business Profile, Google Ads, Workspace, Canva, Shopify and Wix. Owners can upload their website, brand kit and colours to create consistent visuals with Nano Banana 2.1, and Gemini can turn spreadsheets, receipts and purchase records into charts. Google says the features begin rolling out globally to all Gemini app users in the coming days.

  • Gemini
  • Google AI
  • Nano Banana
  • small business

Source: Google

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Space

Fergani Space’s sixth satellite FRG-100D4 reaches orbit with an AI-supported onboard computer

FRG-100D4, the 160 kg sixth experimental satellite of Fergani Space, founded by Baykar chairman Selçuk Bayraktar, launched on 20 October from Cape Canaveral in the USA on SpaceX’s Bandwagon-5 mission. About 63 minutes later it separated from the rocket and reached its 590 km target orbit. Carrying broadband communications and improved navigation payloads as well as an AI-supported onboard computer, it is the company’s highest power-generating satellite so far. Fergani aims to build the Uluğ Bey constellation of more than 200 satellites within five years.

  • Fergani Space
  • satellite
  • Selçuk Bayraktar
  • Baykar

Source: Hürriyet

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Free tool

NotebookLM, now Gemini Notebook, adds a “review the plan first” step for slides and videos

NotebookLM, which Google renamed Gemini Notebook in July, is adding a review step to Slide Decks and Video Overviews. Before anything is rendered, users now see outline notes for slides and producer notes for videos, can ask for changes such as adding an executive summary or reordering scenes, and then select “Proceed”. The one-click option remains. The feature is rolling out to all users during the week of 19 October.

  • NotebookLM
  • Gemini Notebook
  • AI slides
  • video overviews

Source: PPC Land

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Telecom

Türk Telekom wins award for AI-powered smart network; signs 6G partnership with NTT DoCoMo

At Network X in Vienna, Türk Telekom won “Outstanding Optical Transport Telco” for “Hubble Projector”, its AI-powered smart network management solution, which continuously monitors the fibre network with AI and detects and prevents likely problems before they occur. At the same event it signed a cooperation protocol with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo for joint R&D and standardisation in next-generation satellite technology, Open RAN and 6G.

  • Türk Telekom
  • AI
  • 6G
  • smart network

Source: Anadolu Ajansı

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Security

India reports AI agents reaching organisations’ systems during testing

India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In said AI agents from several providers reached live systems at Indian organisations during research and testing and accessed personal data. The agents got in through exposed credentials and overly permissive cloud roles, among other gaps. The agency did not name the providers or the affected organisations.

  • AI agents
  • cybersecurity
  • personal data

Source: TechCrunch

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Transport

Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada

Waymo was approved to join Ontario’s automated vehicle pilot programme. A robotaxi service will not launch in Toronto straight away: the streets will first be mapped in detail by human drivers, followed by testing with a safety operator on board. The company currently runs robotaxi services in 15 U.S. cities.

  • robotaxi
  • Waymo
  • autonomous vehicle

Source: TechCrunch

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Defence technology

Baykar shows joint operations with AKINCI, Bayraktar TB2 and AI-based KEMANKEŞ at Ateş Serbest-2026

Baykar’s unmanned and smart systems demonstrated joint operations at Exercise Ateş Serbest-2026 in Polatlı, Ankara. The company says the missions ranged from autonomous swarm operations and target detection to precision strike and network-centric mission management. Platforms included the AKINCI UCAV, Bayraktar TB2 UCAV, K2 Kamikaze UAV, SİVRİSİNEK smart loitering munition, Bayraktar KALKAN VTOL UAV and the AI-based KEMANKEŞ 1 mini cruise missile.

  • Baykar
  • AKINCI
  • Bayraktar
  • AI-based
  • autonomous

Source: Baykar

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Defence technology

TÜBİTAK shows BİLGEM and SAGE systems at Ateş Serbest-2026

TÜBİTAK took part in Exercise Ateş Serbest-2026, held on 8-13 October in Polatlı, Ankara, at the invitation of the Land Forces Command; the exhibition theme was unmanned and autonomous systems. BİLGEM showed products such as the KORU drone detection radar, a High Power Laser System and mine detection systems, while SAGE displayed the GÖKHAN, GÖKDOĞAN and BOZDOĞAN air-to-air missiles and the KUZGUN and KAYI UCAV munition families. The Marmara Research Center (MAM) exhibited emergency medical products and long-life foods.

  • TÜBİTAK
  • BİLGEM
  • SAGE
  • GÖKDOĞAN
  • autonomous

Source: TÜBİTAK

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Defence technology

TUSAŞ: new KAAN prototype to fly this year, HÜRJET deliveries to Spain in 2028

TUSAŞ General Manager Mehmet Demiroğlu said at an event in Kastamonu that the new prototype of the KAAN national fighter jet is targeted to fly in 2026. He said the company is working towards HÜRJET deliveries to Spain in 2028 under the agreement with that country, and that a possible new order is being considered. According to Demiroğlu, TUSAŞ has 13 platforms of its own and 16,500 employees.

  • TUSAŞ
  • KAAN
  • HÜRJET

Source: HavaHaber

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Space

Turkish Space Agency: IAC 2026 in Antalya ends with record participation from 111 countries

The 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2026), hosted by Türkiye for the first time, ended in Antalya after 5-9 October with 18,642 participants, including 7,604 delegates from 111 countries. According to the Turkish Space Agency (TUA), 8,330 abstracts were submitted from 108 countries, and Türkiye ranked first with 1,810 submissions and 674 accepted papers. The Antalya Declaration for Peace in Space, a Turkish initiative, was backed by 32 ministers, parliamentarians and space agency representatives from 21 countries.

  • Turkish Space Agency
  • TUA
  • IAC 2026
  • Antalya Declaration

Source: Türkiye Uzay Ajansı

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Telecom

Türk Telekom’s AI-powered energy platform M-NEO tops Europe at Gartner awards

Türk Telekom took first place among European operators at Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Awards with M-NEO, a project developed in Türkiye. The AI-powered mobile network energy management platform manages power dynamically and automatically at mobile base stations and is reported to cut battery usage more than threefold. It is the company’s second first place at the event in three years, after the AI-based line analysis project NOVA ALFA in 2024.

  • Türk Telekom
  • AI
  • M-NEO
  • Gartner

Source: Dünya

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Companies

Gemini now does the work, not just answers: Google brings a Gemini agent to businesses

Google announced a unified Gemini agent that plans and carries out tasks on a user’s behalf. Businesses get it first; consumers will follow later. The agent has its own Workspace account and email address and works with tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and Jira. Sundar Pichai said Gemini has more than 1 billion monthly active users.

  • Gemini
  • AI agent
  • Google AI

Source: TechCrunch

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Free tool

GPT-6 arrives in ChatGPT, including for free users

OpenAI released GPT-6 models for everyday ChatGPT conversations. Paid Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users get GPT-6 Sol, while Free and Go users get GPT-6 Luna from 8 October. With the accompanying “Intelligent UI”, ChatGPT can add interactive elements such as charts, buttons, forms and calculators to its answers, and can start answering before it has finished reasoning.

  • ChatGPT
  • free
  • GPT-6
  • free AI
  • AI chat

Source: 9to5Mac

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New model

Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic’s cheapest, fastest model costs about 75% less to run

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its small model built for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summaries, classification and database queries. The company says it costs on average about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting, from Low to Max, and is available on all platforms including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

  • Claude
  • Claude Haiku 5.5
  • Anthropic

Source: Anthropic

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Space

Turkish Space Agency signs two agreements at the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya

The Turkish Space Agency (TUA) signed two agreements at the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2026), held in Antalya, the first time the congress has taken place in Türkiye. A framework agreement with the space agencies of Organization of Turkic States members continues cooperation on a joint cubesat project, and a letter of intent with the UK Space Agency aims to open the way to joint space projects.

  • Turkish Space Agency
  • TUA
  • IAC 2026
  • cubesat

Source: Habertürk

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Türkiye

TurkStat: AI use in Türkiye doubled in a year

According to TurkStat’s 2026 AI statistics, the share of people aged 16-74 using generative AI rose from 19.2% in 2025 to 37.6% in 2026. Use is highest among 16-24 year-olds at 64.9%, and 86.4% of users use it for personal purposes. The share of companies using AI reached 14%. For companies considering it, the biggest obstacle is a lack of expertise (72.3%).

  • AI
  • TurkStat
  • generative AI
  • Türkiye

Source: Gazete Oksijen

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Voice and music

Suno launches AI voiceover: speech and background music in one track

AI music app Suno released its first speech model, Speech, as an open beta. Users enter an idea, a poem or their own writing and describe the voice and musical style; the model generates the speech and the background music together as one cohesive track. Suno warns that in the beta, accents can drift and dramatic pauses can run long.

  • AI voiceover
  • AI music
  • Suno

Source: Suno

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Turkish AI

Türkiye’s domestic AI platform EVREN grows: 11 models in one place, sign-in with e-Devlet

EVREN, Türkiye’s domestic AI platform, now connects 11 open-weight models that can be used through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Sign-in uses e-Devlet identity verification; computing runs on GPU clusters in Türkiye, and prompts and responses are processed in Türkiye. The platform quickly reached 7,500 active users. API calls made before 1 November 2026 are not deducted from credit balances; credits are earned by uploading datasets, labelling data or sharing models. Domestic language, image and speech models are planned.

  • Turkish AI
  • EVREN
  • domestic AI
  • e-Devlet

Source: Dünya

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Free tool

Free AI video: Gemini Omni opens to everyone in Google Vids

Google opened AI video generation with its Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash model to anyone with a personal Google account in Google Vids, at no cost. On desktop, users go to vids.new and choose “Create AI videos” to generate scenes up to 1080p, with new controls such as scene extension and exact duration. Every clip carries an invisible SynthID watermark. More video requires a Google AI plan.

  • free AI video
  • AI video generation
  • Gemini Omni
  • Google Vids

Source: Google

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Space

Türkiye’s first lunar spacecraft is ready: TÜBİTAK UZAY completes integration, launch in 2027

TÜBİTAK UZAY has finished manufacturing, assembling and integrating Türkiye’s first lunar spacecraft under the Lunar Research Programme. Domestic content is over 80%, with 56 of 65 critical items developed in Türkiye. The spacecraft now goes through thermal vacuum, structural and electromagnetic compatibility tests, with launch targeted for the first half of 2027. It will operate for at least three months in a polar orbit about 100 km above the lunar surface, observing the Moon’s water cycle with four science payloads.

  • lunar spacecraft
  • TÜBİTAK UZAY
  • Moon

Source: TÜBİTAK UZAY

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Telecom

Türk Telekom unveils a no-code AI agent platform

Türk Telekom announced a “No-Code AI Agent Development Platform” that lets people build AI agents without writing code. The system analyses the user’s intent, and multiple agents communicate to share tasks. The company aims to use it to take its network to L4 and then fully autonomous L5, detecting and fixing faults before they happen. The platform is still in development; no release date was given.

  • Türk Telekom
  • no-code AI
  • AI agents

Source: Ajans Dijital

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Start-ups

İzmir-based AI app maker HubX becomes a unicorn at a $1.2 billion valuation

HubX, founded in İzmir in 2022 and building AI-focused mobile and web apps, raised up to $75 million from Point72 Private Investments at a $1.2 billion pre-money valuation, its first outside funding. Founded by Cem and Kaan Ortabaş, HubX has more than 40 apps that have reached over 600 million users in 190+ countries.

  • AI apps
  • unicorn
  • HubX

Source: Forbes Türkiye

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Education

Gemini for students: one year of Google AI Plus free for university students in Türkiye

Google is offering university students in Türkiye who are 18 or older and enrolled in higher education the first year of the Google AI Plus plan free. The plan includes access to Gemini Omni, 2x higher usage limits in Gemini, 400 GB of storage and personalised study tools in Gemini Notebook. The offer runs until 31 December 2026; sign-up is at goo.gle/universiteli. After the first year the plan costs 199.99 TL a month and can be cancelled at any time.

  • Gemini for students
  • free
  • Google AI Plus

Source: Google Türkiye

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Turkish AI

Türkiye’s BİLGE AI to open to developers: a 37-billion-parameter Turkish language model

Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır announced that the 37-billion-parameter Bilge language model developed by TÜBİTAK will soon be opened to developers; no date was given. The report also noted that $150 million in public funds is being channelled into AI venture capital funds, and that KOSGEB’s AI Loan Programme offers tech start-ups interest-free financing of up to 5 million lira.

  • Turkish AI
  • BİLGE
  • Bilge
  • Turkish language model
  • TÜBİTAK

Source: Özgür Kocaeli

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Telecom

Vodafone Türkiye puts AI at the centre: a new 150-person organisation and 100+ AI models

Vodafone Türkiye merged its data, analytics, AI and robotic process automation teams into a new Data and AI organisation of more than 150 people. Over 100 AI models are in use across customer experience, network optimisation, fraud and anomaly detection and credit risk, and campaign management has moved to a fully AI-based, real-time decision system. CEO Engin Aksoy said AI is “no longer an option but a necessity”.

  • Vodafone Türkiye
  • AI
  • AI models

Source: Habertürk

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Games

Dream Games and Peak Games account for over 80% of Türkiye’s mobile games revenue

According to AppMagic’s “Türkiye’s Mobile Gaming Landscape 2026” report, Dream Games earns 60% of Türkiye’s mobile games revenue with just two titles, and together with Peak Games the share exceeds 80%. The report says Türkiye’s annual games revenue rose from $504 million in 2020 to almost $2.8 billion in 2025.

  • Dream Games
  • Peak Games
  • mobile games

Source: PocketGamer.biz

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Turkish AI

Turkish AI model BİLGE unveiled: TÜBİTAK warns it is “not yet open to the public”

BİLGE, the Turkish large language model infrastructure developed by TÜBİTAK BİLGEM, was unveiled on 13 June at the Türkiye AI Summit. TÜBİTAK said BİLGE is not yet a publicly available service and that access and terms of use will be announced only through official TÜBİTAK and Ministry of Industry and Technology channels. It also stressed that apps and services offered online under the BİLGE name are not TÜBİTAK’s.

  • Turkish AI
  • BİLGE
  • TÜBİTAK
  • large language model

Source: Gazete Oksijen

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Defence technology

TÜBİTAK unveils 16 new systems at SAHA 2026: domestic technology from BİLGEM, SAGE and UZAY

At the SAHA 2026 fair, TÜBİTAK unveiled 16 systems for the first time and signed 13 cooperation protocols. BİLGEM showed 39 products, including the KORU AESA 3D drone detection radar and a High Power Laser System. SAGE displayed missile families such as GÖKDOĞAN, BOZDOĞAN and SİPER. Minister Kacır said the KIZILELMA unmanned combat aircraft hit a target aircraft using an ASELSAN AESA radar and SAGE’s GÖKDOĞAN missile, making Türkiye the first country to give an unmanned combat aircraft air-to-air engagement capability.

  • TÜBİTAK
  • BİLGEM
  • SAGE
  • KIZILELMA
  • GÖKDOĞAN

Source: TÜBİTAK

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Start-ups

Turkish AI company Insider One acquires Silicon Valley unicorn Bluecore

Insider One, the AI-powered customer engagement platform co-founded and led by CEO Hande Çilingir, acquired Bluecore, a Silicon Valley retail marketing technology company serving more than 400 brands including Michael Kors, The North Face, Ralph Lauren and Sephora. The price was not disclosed. Çilingir said the company positions AI as new infrastructure that runs the customer experience end to end.

  • Turkish AI company
  • Insider One
  • Hande Çilingir
  • unicorn

Source: Gazete Oksijen

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Space

Fergani Space, founded by Selçuk Bayraktar, puts its fifth satellite in orbit

FGN-100-D3, the 113 kg fifth experimental satellite of Fergani Space, founded by Baykar chairman Selçuk Bayraktar, launched from the USA on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission and reached a 500-520 km orbit. Alongside systems Fergani built itself, such as reaction wheels, a magnetometer and a GNSS receiver, it carries an AI-supported onboard computer. The company aims to build the Uluğ Bey Global Positioning System of more than 100 satellites within five years.

  • Fergani Space
  • Selçuk Bayraktar
  • Baykar
  • satellite

Source: Hürriyet

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